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November, 2011
Not-for-Profit Success
This edition of Strategies explores resolving business issues in not-for-profit organizations.
Field Notes. Twenty years ago, Peter Drucker predicted a “management boom” for not-for- profit (NPO) organizations, promising more effective, mission-focused, accountable organizations. Clearly, we've fallen short. Why? Read the article.
Hear from NPO leaders. We asked NPO leaders, all of whom are our clients, to share their experience of facing into the storm and evolving their organizations. Watch the video.
This edition of Strategies explores resolving business issues in not-for-profit organizations.
Field Notes. Twenty years ago, Peter Drucker predicted a “management boom” for not-for- profit (NPO) organizations, promising more effective, mission-focused, accountable organizations. Clearly, we've fallen short. Why? Read the article.
Hear from NPO leaders. We asked NPO leaders, all of whom are our clients, to share their experience of facing into the storm and evolving their organizations. Watch the video.
September, 2011
Speaking with Conviction
Language is culture, and culture is more important than strategy, so you want to get it right. Speaking with conviction is an essential leadership attribute for rapid growth.
Language is culture, and culture is more important than strategy, so you want to get it right. Speaking with conviction is an essential leadership attribute for rapid growth.
August, 2011
Chance Favors the Connected Mind
Attributes of highly effective leaders, key definitions to support a winning mindset, and understanding innovation.
Attributes of highly effective leaders, key definitions to support a winning mindset, and understanding innovation.
July, 2011
Digital Media, Understanding Compensation
Two CEOs offer comments about the rapidly evolving media industry and how challenging it can be to discern the right investment path. Also, compensation is among the best tools that leaders have for consciously shaping the culture in their organizations -- that is, shaping the ways-of-thinking & acting that are taught and reenforced.
Two CEOs offer comments about the rapidly evolving media industry and how challenging it can be to discern the right investment path. Also, compensation is among the best tools that leaders have for consciously shaping the culture in their organizations -- that is, shaping the ways-of-thinking & acting that are taught and reenforced.
June, 2011
The Four Arguments Towards Competitive Advantage
Competitive advantage is king. How leaders perceive and pursue it governs strategic thinking, investment and enterprise success. Our own thinking has evolved, as reflected in this revised article, originally published in 2010.
November-December, 2010
Growth Strategies from Two Leaders
Leaders don’t only need techniques; they need to learn from the mindsets, perspectives and philosophical orientations of other leaders. Here we offer conversations with two business leaders about how they successfully guide the evolution of their enterprises.
Evolution is a Discipline
An Interview with Dr. Steve Sun, CEO of Genewiz, Inc.
Getting to the Heart of Better Execution
An Interview with L.P. Frieder, III, COO of Gentex
An Interview with L.P. Frieder, III, COO of Gentex
October, 2010
Two CEOs speak candidly about how they have developed both as leaders and as human beings. Randy Jordan is at the helm of an international charity that works in 72 countries, employs over 2000 people, and coordinates volunteerism from among a community of 50,000 Christians. Alex Hunter took Ethos Partners, a healthcare services company, from zero to $36m in five years, and sold it this month to Navigant Consulting.
September, 2010
Natural paths reveal specifically how to reach the next sustainable performance level. The Path to Strategic Alignment enables enterprise leaders to create a successful agenda for what should be one of the most important investments an organization will make: the offsite strategy meeting for the senior leadership team.
July, 2010
Why are highly capable professional management teams often unable to come together and craft cohesive strategies for taking businesses to the next level? Effective strategy is a mindset, one that must be developed and shared within any senior management team in order to ensure business growth and evolution.
June, 2010
Effective strategy is a process, not a plan. And effective leaders are those who are busy creating the conditions to support that process. Read on to learn how strategic alignment, not planning, is the key for growing and evolving your organization.
May, 2010
How do you know which changes are most likely to make your business grow? This question goes to the heart of how to figure out where to focus time, attention and resources. The Four Arguments are a highly effective method for illuminating how to make the right choices to grow your enterprise.
April, 2010
It’s common knowledge: ask better questions, and you will get a better answers. And for leaders, better answers inform tough choices, especially in times like these. But what about questions that are missing altogether? When it comes to organizational growth and development, this could be deadly.
March, 2010
Here’s a strategy for avoiding mistakes commonly made by many enterprise leaders: when performance in a business needs to be improved, the first place to look is at how effectively roles are being defined and how well interdependencies between roles are understood. Yet here’s the catch: establishing a clear system of roles among a senior leadership team is one of the most difficult conversations for any executive to have.
